*** EV Tour - Seattle 1 Fanviews Here 07/15/11 ***

thefin190

SM10080 wrote:

acutejam wrote:

SM10080 wrote:

OK. Sorry to call a spade a spade, but this wasn't a great show... "The audience was very respectful". BULLSHIT. The man asked for people to stop using flash photography, and then they continued. To the point Ed just said 'fuck it, get it out of your system'. It fucked up the vibe of the whole show.

The scale to measure any Ed show STARTS at great and goes up past transcendental life-altering experience....

Go sell crazy someplace else. we're all stocked up here. on koolaid.

Ok I am as disappointed as anyone that night 2's set list was way way better than night 1's, and I couldn't get tickets to night 2. That being said, night 1 was still amazing, and I was grateful to be able to see Eddie Vedder perform live in an intimate setting regardless of the setlist. The audience was great, and I could tell at the end that Eddie was truly humbled by the roar of the crowd.

OHtheRitual

Ok I know this is way late, cuz I don't come on here much..but I had to get my 2 cents in I was at both amazing shows that weekend, and though he played longer the 2nd night, and that night was so mind-blowingly good as well, I have to say night 1 was my favorite of the 2. The vibe was kick ass..so much love in the room that night. As for the crowd behavior, I found the night one crowd more respectful than the 2nd. Yeah, people were taking pictures at first, but he didn't have to tell us more than once. He finished a song, asked people to please stop, in the same breath gave us the photo op we all wanted (and he made it fun..damn it why didn't I have my camera ready!!) I don't really recall seeing much for camera flashes after that. At least not until the lights came up for the last 2 songs..

I'm really happy to see that others were so blown away by Arc. I'll admit, I was a Arc virgin before this (live, anyway)..And I was SO COMPLETELY shocked by the effect this song had on me. The lights go down, all you can see is a silhouette Ed on stage..you can hear a pin drop. He starts it off with that low, bass-y, gutteral note that (IMO) only Ed can hit with such a punch..the kind of note you feel deep in your stomach. Slowly in the dark he layers on pitch after pitch, harmonizing so perfectly with himself. His voice starts to bounce around the room, coming at you from every direction, surrounding you from the enormous speakers and rebounding off the room that was made to to do exactly that. Still, higher note by higher note, he builds it up, layer, by layer by layer, and every note is so exactly 'Ed', the Ed we all know and love and appreciate. He builds it and builds it until he's hitting the high, screaming, wild, make your heart jump from your throat kind of wail..It builds into this...orgy-atic feast for the senses..a mind-blowing crescendo of a climax, brought on simply by the power of his voice!! No instruments, nothing articficial, nothing and no one backing him up. There's not even any words in the song. Just him. It builds and layers and then blows your mind, and then he just.. walks off stage. And you're left completely surrounded by sound.
It's simply amazing.. In case you can't tell, I'm still completely in awe of the whole experience, and it's more than a month later. I may be biased to this particular version, but I have become a bit of an Arc "connoisseur" since this show, downloading every live version I can get my hands on all the way back from when he first started performing this song, and I swear I have yet to hear one better than Seattle night 1. I HOPE HOPE HOPE that if they make a DVD release of any of this tour, that they include this song. Clearly this song stands out as a high point of my weekend
But let me just add the whole show was awesome, my other highest points being Walking the Cow and Millworker and Falling Slowly, and the unplugged Sleepless Nights. Yes I was one of the "shuushers" at the start of that..LOL

All in all, aside from Seattle Key Arena Nov 6 2000, this was the best show of my life SO thankful I was a part of it..